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[ronott1]

Oh, I found this cabinet, looks like a printer cabinet. It's very heavy and it already has a fan in it venting holes and 3 shelves. I think it would make a wonderful incubator but they wanted $50 for it and it would still need some tweaking to make it into an incubator. If they had wanted half that price, I would have bought it. I don't really need it, I have 2 LG incubators but it would have made a really nice incubator.

If you are building your own incubator, do not use light bulbs and water heater thermostats.

Incubator warehouse has improved their kits for this year and something like that is better.

I have seen too many try to use light bulbs and bad thermostats and then wonder why the egg all die.

 

[Peep_Show]

Yay LG's! I have a 25 y.o. Miller (which morphed into LG) that still -- knock wood -- does yeoman's duty. Love my bator box.....

 

[Alaskan]

How many birds fit in there?

The coop is an 8x8 attached to a shed 8x16. Soooooo, the number of birds that fit in there, depends on how you like your density. In the winter the shed connects to the greenhouse which is 8x16, if you want to count that too in the covered square feet. There are runs, but I don't tend to count the square feet of the runs, since they don't use the entire run when it gets nasty cold and windy, or lots of snow.

I prefer closer to 10 square feet per bird of covered space (and I count all three buildings), but 8 is my minimum. So 40 birds is the absolute maximum that I should have.....and I have more than that right now. But, I don't have them all in the coop and shed right now either (greenhouse is still growing plants). I have one big group still growing up in my bigger chicken tractor, and three hens in my vegetable garden.

 

[vehve]

Okay, I have been having the best time on a site that I found on the self sufficiency thread:

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/crockpotbeef/to-die-beef-roast.html

Felix, this is for you. I think you should try it. I'm going to.

There are thousands of different recipes and copycat recipes. Lots of fun

I have a bit of a cooking philosophy which battles against using pre-made mixes when I'm cooking, I prefer to know exactly what I'm putting into the food. And I don't have a slow cooker.

It does look like a nice and moist roast though. Let me know how it turns out. That picture makes me crave Boeuf Bourguignon made with the Julia Child recipe.

Deb, lovely story about your real estate deals

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: x2 Wonderful that you are all home and prayers for you all!

 

[Wisher1000]

Home.

Absolutely awesome! I know life will be back to normal in no time at all. There is no medicine like home sweet home. Give Maddie a hug, kiss, and a little tickle from me!!

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I, on the other hand, have no such aversion. I think I will make this tomorrow, I just happen to have a roast in the freezer............

 

[chickisoup]

No one would ever get fed up here in the spring on clean up and planting days or winter on days after a big snow if I didn't have my crockpot and two different sized Nescos!

 

[bamadude]

Bama, I got home a bit earlier than usual today and the roofers were just finishing up for the day. Out of the 3 burly men working on my roof, 2 of them had to tell me they had chickens, too.


Wait for it...


They both have silkies.




That would explain the tarps over all their equipment - they're not used to real birds.

You'd think burly roofers would have real birds. Like turkens.

thats too funny. I will always call them my wifes chickens. If i had to have turkens they would be well hidden

 

[bamadude]

Btw: what color eggs do silkies and polish lay

 

[bamadude]

Bamadude I just found your thread! I bought a step below bator like yours. I didn't get the turner kit though

that thread is a hot mess. We are several newbies at incubation, with a newly designed bator. People are having issues with temp spikes. The 9300 has a weired temp/humidity sensor that moves around alot. I plan to install a computer fan next hatch and see if it helps. It would be great if a hatching guru would stop by and help us out. But anyways; congrats on getting a bator and good luck with the ducks.